Some other things we know:

Dr. Lonny Shavelson found that 70% of female heroin addicts were sexually abused in childhood.

Post USA Civil War alcoholism was called “the soldiers disease”

Addiction is a symptom of PTSD. Look it up.

Yet, they always seem to miss the mark. This is because they’re not aiming at morality at all. They’re aiming to make themselves look good — which is an entirely different goal.

“Gun violence kills!” They say. “Let’s get guns off the streets!” They cry. Then they single out the AR-15, which looks really aggressive, but is only responsible for a small fraction of shooting deaths.– “Migrants need our help!” They cry. “They have human rights!” They shout. Then, they encourage illegal immigration under the guise of generosity, only to have human smugglers step in, abuse and assault immigrants, and if they manage to make it to the U.S. alive (which isn’t all of them), they have a life in hiding, being exploited by employers to look forward to. — “Transgender people need help!” They scream. “They’re killing themselves!” They cry. Then, they proceed to indulge their delusions by fast-tracking their hormone treatments and surgery at younger and younger ages, which alienates them from mainstream society, damages their bodies, renders many of them sterile, and doesn’t do ANYTHING to actually address their delusion. — “Our Earth is dying!” They scream. “Pollution is killing us!” They cry. Then, they fly all over the world in jets powered by fossil fuel to go to climate change conferences. Some of them go the extra mile and purchase electric cars, which plug into the grid to recharge — ~80% of the energy of which is provided by fossil fuels.

None of this makes sense to a conservative who believes in God, because that very belief means that faking it doesn’t work. God knows. Conservatives try to find some good, though misguided, intention behind the actions of liberals, because they’re looking at it from their own perspective as a good person. But, these aren’t good people. If they were, wouldn’t they properly research the consequences of policies BEFORE instituting them? How little would someone have to care to not thoroughly look into the consequences of a policy before instituting it? That’s how much they actually care.

If he really felt any responsibility for his actions, would he be asking for his life when he didn’t allow his victims to keep theirs? What sort of person intentionally takes the lives of others, but then insists upon keeping their own? It’s an act of hypocrisy to want something for yourself that you don’t allow others. His act of mass murder was violent hypocrisy. Petitioning the court to keep his life when his victims will never have theirs is just a continuation in that same vein.

There are legal structures preventing the execution or life-without-parole incarceration of a person who committed a crime as a minor… Why? Are his victims any less dead because he was a minor at the time that he killed them? Part of sentencing is about keeping society safe, but the other part is about justice. I hope the Supreme Court remembers that when making their decision.

Interesting …
While it is true that not everything is “roses” and there remains much to be done … assuming that it can even BE done … the opponents jump and scream and holler “DOOM!!!” … “The END of the World is Coming…!!!

They exaggerate and blow completely out of proportion the smallest of problems … and you, seemingly complain that President Trump acts the part of a Cheerleader … he too exaggerates … this exaggeration acts as a counter-balance … tries to instill hope … promotes the Positive Attitude needed to continue forward …
The Positive Attitude needed by His Base, by the US Citizenry as a Whole, by the Politicians who are supporting (or beginning to support) this Agenda.

Are you so psychologically unaware of what is happening … of the importance of this exaggeration… the importance of this “white lie” as it relates to the Nation, the Citizenry, the Government … that you fail to comprehend it?

How is it that you get to the position of being a published commentator without understanding … or, at least recognizing, the purpose of “Crowd Psychology”?

Thanks for the compliment. Those stickers were commercially available at the time. But depending on where you live, you need to be careful of the sentiment expressed, lest your car be trashed if in the wrong neighborhood.

Before Obama was elected, my previous sticker was “Some OTHER A–hole for president”. (Obviously, I was no fan of the Bush dynasty.) You might be surprised to hear that some some people who saw that message privately and quietly told me they agreed with it. Then Obama was elected, so I removed it, as I didn’t want my car vandalized.

During the 2016 election I saw bumper stickers on Democrat’s cars that read “Feel the Bern”. Considering the current state of Bernie’s health, I can imagine revising them to now read “Heal the Bern”.

My latest sticker is not a statement, as I try to provoke thinking rather than incite discord. I had it custom printed, and it simply states this, with the first line in black and second line in red:

Who Pays?
Who Benefits?

If anyone wants to print these and capitalize on the idea, please do. Even a Socialist might be confused by that, if thinking about the implications of those questions.

In a different context, I’m reminded of Bush on the aircraft carrier (was it there?) with the banner of “Mission Accomplished”. The (then) media rightfully took him to task, for bragging that. Then, how long did our forces remain there afterward, if the mission had been accomplished?

Oh. Or is it that one initial mission spawns many more missions? Isn’t that known as “make-work”?

Thanks for the great comment. I certainly agree that Trump’s policies have done far more to help American workers than the disaster that was Obama. I do strongly assert, however, that it is shortsighted of him to sweepingly declare the problem solved. Of course it is understandable for a politician to do just that but the president should show more faith in his supporters. They understand exactly why they elected him and that it will take time. Trump must deal with complex, deeply ingrained problems related to the globalist betrayal of American workers for a full 28 years until he was elected in 2016. He was never going to solve all this in 3 years, and may not in 8 but he can go a long way to dismantle this corrosive establishment system. The fact is Americans are still struggling. We constantly hear of 70-80 percent of Americans living paycheck to paycheck, the majority of Americans not having enough savings to handle a $1,000 emergency, etc. etc. It is going to take time and a lot of work to restore the middle class in this country to good health. Simply declaring that “full employment” has made everything great again is not helpful.

During the Obama years, the bumper sticker on my car was “Critical Thinking – It’s the OTHER national deficit”.

The Dems appeal is to those who are only capable of emotion and incapable of critical thinking. Let us pray that those voters are not yet in a majority.

“What is up with this man? Is there a medical condition associated with this behavior?”

Yes. He’s suffering from terminal campaignitis.

The kettle is calling the pot black. Politicians will say anything to get elected. And it often works, as the voting masses have virtually no memory of what politicians said previously.

However, Jimmy Carter was a disaster as a president. When he advocated self deprivation (remember him telling us to put on your sweater, like Jimmy?) it was like a slap in the face to those of us who were already wearing two sweaters due to a dismal economy.

Electronic devices get recycled, so your commentary is way off base on that issue. And conservation begins at home – not with Carter-esque school indoctrination, or public service announcements that are a government handout of our tax dollars to the advertising industry.

It is ironic that three decades of prosperity have produced such spoiled children. Unintended consequences, indeed.

How did this happen? Well, the chickens are coming home to roost. The children of the Sixties and *their* children and grandchildren have been indoctrinated in the same way, including now never wanting to leave their nests. The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree. They and their parents are close to 50% of the electorate now.

Sigh. What a swell country this is. Let’s see if they’ll leave their nests to vote for the Granny from Hell, who promises everything to everyone.

Thank you, Diogenes! Coming from you, that means quite a lot.

Time matters. It estranges us all.

I do. And so I will say it.

Time matters. At what point in time and recorded history are you referring to? (I keep saying that I use the impersonal “you”, so as not to offend the uneducated – not that anyone here is in that category.)

If I were a Liberal, I’d say it’s time to have a “conversation” about this. We all must consider long term time-frames. In many ways you are both correct. Now you only need to discuss the details.

Keep calm and carry on… (smile)

Not that I think this bill is worth passing, or even considering. We’ve been at war with Afghanistan for 18 years – anybody have any idea what the mission is there? Is it to grow opium? Because that has increased from 5% of the world’s supply to 80%, all under US military occupation.

This nonsense is to distract the masses. It’s another “it doesn’t really matter issue”. Yeah, I know they are destroying history, but most of what we think is “history” i just a bunch of garbage propaganda they fed us in the day cares we were forced to go to we called “skool” – and I’m no exception mind you. I was subjected to this garbage when I was a kid too, and in college as well, I’m just aware of it – now.

The Romans became weak, and were overrun/destroyed by people who couldn’t have shined their boots in the days when Rome was strong. Romans demanding bread and circuses were like today’s American millennials.

I am totally correct about native tribes. I don’t feel sorry for them, or, alternatively, celebrate them as
noble savages,” `a la’ Rousseau. They were just a couple of millenia behind Europeans when they met.

If you have anything to noteworthy to say, please do so.

“victims of history, just like Romans were, just like Greeks were, just like every society that has been overtaken by by a stronger society,”

That’s a strange view of history you have there, The Romans destroyed themselves. They destroyed the Greeks but essentially the Greeks destroyed themselves in their own infighting among themselves.

You are somewhat correct about the Native American Tribes but don’t feel too sorry for them because of the atrocities they visited on each other very similar to the warring African tribes who murdered each other before they discovered they could make money by selling their enemies into slavery. But shush, we don’t really want to discuss those things because if we did we would be labeled as racists.